"Never seek illicit wealth."
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"Maximising my wealth was never my chief thing."
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"Once you begin to talk about wealth inequality, especially as it relates to corporations and big banks, or engage in an indictment of U.S. foreign policy, you are really getting at the center of a society that is very fearful of that kind of critique."
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"Martin Luther King was a radical democrat, by which I mean someone who is a foe of wealth inequality."
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"The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation."
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"When we work with our thinking, then to have great wealth is the same as to have nothing. That's the only freedom."
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"Wealth as well as sea water. The more we drink, the more thirsty. The so famous"
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"America should stand for more than just wealth."
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"The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption."
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"No profit grows where no pleasure is taken."
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"These hoards of wealth you can unlock at will."
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"If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence."
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"Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature."
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"Let the amelioration in our laws of property proceed from the concession of the rich, not from the grasping of the poor. Let us understand that the equitable rule is, that no one should take more than his share, let him be ever so rich."
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"The amount of a man's wealth consists in the number of things he can do without."
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"Wealth is nothing in itself; it is not useful but when it departs from us."
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"He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him."
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"I am simply unable to understand the value placed by so many people upon great wealth."
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"If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution."
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"Wealth has more and more increased, and at the same time gathered itself more and more into masses, strangely altering the old relations, and increasing the distance between the rich and the poor."
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